Observers

Article 3 of the Declaration Establishing the Arctic Council (1996) provides:

As of 2008 the following delegations have observer status in the Arctic Council:

Non-arctic states:

• China
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Spain
• United Kingdom

Inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary organizations, global and regional:

• Conference of the Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR)
• International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM)
• Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO)
• North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Non-governmental organizations:

• Advisory Committee on Protection of the Seas (ACOPS)
• Arctic Circumpolar Route (ACR)
• Association of World Reindeer Herders
• Circumpolar Conservation Union (CCU)
• International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
• International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
• International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH)
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
• Northern Forum
• University of the Arctic (UArctic)
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)